Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains
Mainly I blog, but today I bleg.
I prefer the Firefox browser to Google Chrome, but the former crashes on a regular basis, like every other day. Yes, I have done the obvious things like make sure I am running the latest version. I take it that others have this crash problem. Any suggestions?
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I had the same problem (crashing) and traced the cause to the number of plug-ins and extensions I was running. I disabled all of them and the crashing was much less frequent. But the extensions were some of my favorite features. Bummer.
Been using Chrome for the past 6 months and have gotten used to it.
Thanks, Dave. Chrome doesn’t display as well on my machine, and my engineer friends say Google collects a lot of data . . .
But no crashes with Chrome.
I now use a vpn – virtual private network – which is very good at what it does – keeping me anonymous, even from Google. About $3 a month, highly rated.
Bill, I use Firefox on Windows 7. My strategy is to have few tabs or windows open that have a lot of ads or multi-media content. If I read e.g. a Huffington Post article or go to Newegg to buy a battery, I do my task, bookmark something if appropriate, and shut down that tab or browser-window.
Things go especially poorly when I shut the lid while Firefox is open, then open it up again.
Chris Kirk
Dave,
I’ll look into a vpn.
Chris,
I’m running Windows 8.1 and resisting the upgrade to 10.
I think you are right: it is the multiple open tabs open to sites downloading craploads of crap content that causes trouble.
Late to the conversation, but here are my 2 cents: I recommend using the Adblock Plus add-on to cut the crap. Works like a charm.
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